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Please be aware that some of this page WILL contain strong ADULT language !
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Name: Glen Boy / Age: 41 3/4 Town/Area: Started skating:1973 Total years skating: 31 years still rippin Fave terrain: pools bowls pipes Fave park ever: Thunder Least fave park ever: Wokingham (bad slam) Fave board ever owned: Surf Flyer (with skatebrake ) Most memorable skate moment: Too many, California 1979 17 years of age meeting a very young Caballero, and touring all the parks Del Mar, the Ranch, Big O to name three. Brief comments: Live To Skate |
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Name: Jim / v-jimchi@microsoft.com Age: big 30 Town/Area: Reading/London Started skating: Early 90’s just when all my mates gave up Total years skating: 11’ish Fave terrain: any thing small! Fave park ever: been to very few, but the ones in Brisbane rip Least fave park ever: any crappy metal council job Fave board ever owned: my first – long since forgotten Most memorable skate moment: still waiting for it Brief comments: 11 years on, still crap, but not prepared to give up just yet… |
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Name: Paul Sampson (paul@trevenen.freeserve.co.uk) Age: 39 Town/Area: Newquay & Penryn/Falmouth, Cornwall. Started skating: 1975 Total years skating: 28 with a couple of layoffs, always had a skate to hand though. Fave terrain: Concrete bowls and parks, halfpipes. Fave park ever: Holywell, where I "grew up". Rom made a great impression on me though. Least fave park ever: Playing Place is pretty crappy (but it's STILL THERE!) Fave board ever owned: My first "proper" board: Benjyboard Mark Sabloski, Trackers, Sims Wheels. Most memorable skate moment: Learning a new trick and nailing it. Still feels good. Skating with friends. Brief comments: Skate and CREATE! |
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Name: Victor Viskovich. Age: 45years young Town/Area: new plymouth,New Zealand Started skating: 1973 Total years skating: ova 30 big ones Fave terrain: Fave park ever: skatopia.co.nz Least fave park ever: glen eden bowl Fave board ever owned: speed run board.44inchs long ,three quarter inch thick kauri hand shaped ,tracker trucks ,road rider sixs Most memorable skate moment: Brief comments: glad i can still get the feeling with that edger carve or narly grind!!a good skate can blow away the cob webs and liberate the soul!!! skate on bretheren |
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Name: Darren Rathbone / d_rathbone@hotmail.com Age: 32 Town/Area: Cornwall originally, now Bristol Bath area Started skating: 1984ish Total years skating: 20 Fave terrain: Everything Park, Street, Slalom, Downhill Fave park ever: Holywell Bay R.I.P, Playing Place, Newlyn east, St George, The Deaner!! Least fave park ever: Roche bowl built by Annika Rice Rode like a Sandpit... Fave board ever owned: Santa Cruz Jeff Grosso Coke Graphic Most memorable skate moment: Winning Bude Downhill for the First time, Going To DHX in capetown, Meeting Jeff Phillips Brief comments: I ride for Comet Skateboards. Kryptonics Wheels, Bones Bearings and Essence Clothing. |
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Name: Chris Ward / surfpunkmetalfan@talk21.com Age: 39 Town/Area: Southport, Merseyside/Lancashire Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 1976 – 79, 1985 – 87 seriously, but it’s always burnt in my soul. Fave terrain: Banks, bowls and halfpipes. Fave park ever: The halfpipe at Warrington in 1986 Least fave park ever: Southport had some bad transitions but could be fun. Fave board ever owned: My current G&S Ken Fillion Most memorable skate moment: First time I pulled a frontside air in the halfpipe at Southport. (Ramp in picture) Brief comments: Please get in touch if you remember me. I need photos! |
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Name: Terry Bland / tbland@dsl.pipex.com Age: 34 Town/Area: Stockport Started skating: 1978 Total years skating: 1 year (1978), 5 months (now) Fave terrain: Bowl - anything fast and high - vert one day... Fave park ever: Stockport Least fave park ever: Newbury municipal park - concrete (ouch!), slippy steel ramps and ice (it was late December) Fave board ever owned: Jay Adams Zflex (blue), Indy 166s, Kryptonics Route 65s (clear red) Most memorable skate moment: First back side grind. Brief comments: I enjoy skateboarding more than anything else I do. I've met some great people (lots through MAS) that I would not have otherwise known. The folks who have gone out of their way to help me along have restored my faith in human nature - you know who you are. I WILL be one of those airborn vert skaters I currently watch with my chin on the floor. The bruises fade faster than the good memories. |
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Name: Neil Atkinson / neil@neil-atkinson.com Age: 41 Town/Area: Southport now Watford Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: about 7 in total with the big gaps Fave terrain: mini pipe - half pipe - bowl Fave park ever: Southport - loads of great times in the Sev's and Eighties, Preston and Warrington half pipe in the 80's Least fave park ever: Llandudno Fave board ever owned: My old Sablosky, ACS 651's and Powerflex 5 wheels Most memorable skate moment: Seeing Alva at Southport and being in earshot when after 5-10 mins skating he said "This is shit" and walked off! Brief comments: It's great to be back, I'd love to hear from others who skated Southport in the Sev's or Preston in the late Eighties - Woody this means you!!! |
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Name: Steve Delves/ Joxa / stevo_delves@hotmail.com Age: 18 Town/Area: Barrow-In-Furness Started skating: October 1st 2001 Total years skating: 2 years 6 months Fave terrain: Mini ramps/Bowls/Ditches/Insane terrain and manual pads Fave park ever: Stockport bones or Livingston Least fave park ever: Prestons the grind Fave board ever owned: Driven Jason Jessee model or my Scum Pitchfork Most memorable skate moment: Winning 3rd place in a best trick comp in america Brief comments: I'll skate pretty much anything,even freestyle! Please visit www.geocities.com/slackerskateboards cheers guys! |
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name: steve reynolds / mr014e2267@blueyonder.co.uk age: 39 town: ruislip/west london started: 1978 total years :4 fave terrain: all fave park: harrow fave board: sablosky 2, trackers, benjy boots skate moment black bowl at skate city brief comment: long time dead so keep skating |
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Name: Kevin Wilsher / kwilsher@yahoo.com Age: 28 Town/Area: Hayes, Middlesex Started skating: 2003 Total years skating: 1 Fave terrain: Concrete, bowls, ramps.. Fave park ever: Harrow, Meanwhile Gdns.. Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Flat Pig Murf Most memorable skate moment: the first anything..& finding this site! Brief comments: shoulda started sooner! |
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Name: Pete Parsons / pete@londonbreakz.co.uk Age: 38 Town/Area: East London Started skating: 76/77 Total years skating: on and off to this day Fave terrain: anywhere you cant hear your wheels go clanging over cracks in the pavment! Fave park ever: SKATECITY off Tooley St ..........South Bank under Fest Center Least fave park ever: anywhere in skater hating Tower Hamlets Fave board ever owned: G&S FibreFlex, Gullwings, red and blue 65mm Kryptonics Most memorable skate moment: Skating down Tooley St every Sat morning to Skatecity, avoiding getting my gear nicked by gangs of skinheads on the south bank. Brief comments: ......radical! |
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Name: Jerry Hall / jerryhall64@hotmail.com Age: 39 and a half Town: Cambridge Started: 1977 Total Years: 27 on and off Fave Terain: Smooth long downhills Fave Park Ever: Ipswich Least Fave park Ever: Crewkerne (probably not there any more) Fave Board Ever Owned: Apart from my recently-home-made 52" Longboard, my now-deceased Butlock Special with ACS 580s, Variflex Clouds and 70mm green Ulons - soft as putty and gripped like poo to a blanket. Most Memorable Skate Moment: Busting my wrist (twice) in bad spills and my first blast on my home-made longboard. Brief Comment: Just get out and skate. |
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Name: Craig Miller / rheged12@yahoo.com |
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Name: Pete Parsons / pete@londonbreakz.co.uk Age: 38 Town/Area: East London Started skating: 76/77 Total years skating: on and off to this day Fave terrain: anywhere you cant hear your wheels go clanging over cracks in the pavment! Fave park ever: SKATECITY off Tooley St ..........South Bank under Fest Center Least fave park ever: anywhere in skater hating Tower Hamlets Fave board ever owned: G&S FibreFlex, Gullwings, red and blue 65mm Kryptonics Most memorable skate moment: Skating down Tooley St every Sat morning to Skatecity, avoiding getting my gear nicked by gangs of skinheads on the south bank. Brief comments: ......radical! |
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Name: Kevin Wilsher / kwilsher@yahoo.com Age: 28 Town/Area: Hayes, Middlesex Started skating: 2003 Total years skating: 1 Fave terrain: Concrete, bowls, ramps.. Fave park ever: Harrow, Meanwhile Gdns.. Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Flat Pig Murf Most memorable skate moment: the first anything..& finding this site! Brief comments: shoulda started sooner! |
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Name: Iain 'brian damage' Burden
/ intorachel@hotmail.com Age: 26 Town/Area: dorset Started skating: 87 Total years skating: 7 Fave terrain: concrette bowls and down hill Fave park ever: slades farm Least fave park ever: charles street dorchester Fave board ever owned: my 48" pintail Most memorable skate moment: getting run down by a speeding car and surviving! Brief comments: never quit. |
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Name: Charlie Hobbs / charliefiveo@hotmail.com Age: 32 Town/Area: Bournemouth UK, was Alton UK. Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: 25 years of scabs and good times Fave terrain: Pools and ‘crete Fave park ever: Southsea UK, curious concrete bowls n stuff, and Brixton. Least fave park ever: Meanwhile One in Nottinghill (now somewhere under meanwhile three), but that’s better than any two 8 foot wide metal quarters with ½ mile of flat between them. Fave board ever owned: Zorlac John Gibson with nose snapped off, an ex Barry Abrook board. Most memorable skate moment: My first frontside airs down the road from Surrey Skateboards, and slamming unprotected at 45mph whilst being towed behind a car – pulled my wife whilst I was ½ man ½ scab. Brief comments: any old skate mates out there? I’m at charliefiveo@hotmail.com, dust it down, hook up and lets rip it up. |
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Name: Wayne-ur Coward / Wayne.Coward@airbus.com Age: 42 Town/Area: Trowbridge Wiltshire Started skating: '76 Total years skating: 76-78 and about 3 months this time Fave terrain: Concrete Fave park ever: Yate Least fave park ever: Calne Fave board ever owned: Kryptonics Resinflex 44" Longboard Most memorable skate moment: 1st time I dropped a 1/4 pipe Brief comments: Bought a longboard xmas '03 to cruise around on, discovered M-A-S. Have become a wannabe vert skater !! (big boys made me do it) |
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Name: Johnny Faber / poopduster@yahoo.com Age: 34 Town/Area: Riverside USA Started skating: Skated for a couple of years as a kid, just picked it up again about 3 months ago Total years skating: Fave terrain: Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Most memorable skate moment: Brief comments: |
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Name: James Top Dog / james@mrprinters.com Age: 36 Town/Area: Horsham Sussex Started skating: 1981 stopped 1986 (Bmx took over) started again 2000 Total years skating: 9 Fave terrain: Downhill/Multi story anything smooth! Fave park ever: Southsea Least fave park ever: Brighton - snapped my wrist like a carrot Fave board ever owned: Sector 9 Most memorable skate moment: Rediscovering skating - one perfect summer on Brighton sea front Brief comments: Never to old to skate, okay I mainly longboard and slalom now but hey its still skating, its still getting myself outside and jamming with friends......put simply it rules |
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Name: Steve Morrow / oldskoolskater@mailinator.com |
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Name: Tony Birn / tony_b@onetel.com Age: 38 Town/Area: Mill Hill/ London Started skating: 1976-77 can't quite remember but stopped 1980 Total years skating: 9 Fave terrain: Bowls/Pools/Banks/Concrete - anything I can carve. Fave park ever: Harrow - Solid Surf - I didn't get to too many others before I gave up 1st time around Least fave park ever: Anything new that just has rails, stairs and banks - BORING Fave board ever owned: G&S Fiberflex with California Slalom and Blue 60mm Kryptonics - Faze 7 Deck, Full Trackers, Either Benji Boots or Green Kryptonics CX-66 - My current Bulldog Model with Indy 166 and the old Kryptonics. I still have all my old equipment Most memorable skate moment: First trip to Skate City in London. When I watched Tony Hawk do a 900 on X-Games - it got me back on my board, or - Seeing my legs and new Fiberflex longboard carving around Stockwell on RAD TV. Brief comments I Still love skateboarding even after a 21 year lay off. I'm so pleased to see so many older skaters getting back into it. OLDSKOOL RULES. It hurts more now, when you bail. Just enjoy yourself. WHAT'S AN OLLIE? |
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name - michael mccall / ldheaven@hotmail.com age - 41 town - sheffield started skating - 1976 total years skating - 1976-1979/80,then in 2002 fave terrain - u pie/bowl/or a good long hill fave skate park - roxy skate in swinton in 78 / the house/or/devonshire green in sheffield least fav park - charnock park ,sheffield fav board - sims lonnie toft,trackers,yellow bones,sims speed bearings in 78,,now - bulldog big foot 2,webb trucks,bulldog double conicals team set,bones reds. most memorable moment - a full wooden pipe in some skatepark in 78 wow it was cool .,anybody remember the park e mail me with the name brief comment - get a board and skate its never too late and so much fun wished id never stopped |
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Name: Andy Lewis / Leazes2004@aol.com Age: 30 Town/Area: Misterton Started skating: 87 To 89 Total years skating: 6 years Fave terrain: ramps,full and mini Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Most memorable skate moment: dropping in and rock to fakie with Alan Portwood Brief comments: |
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Name: Dale Symons / jamw@jamw.freeserve.co.uk Age:40 Town:Swindon Started Skating:1977 Years Skating:4 Fave Terrain:Any Fave Park:Any Least Fave Park:Doesn`t exist Fave Board:`80`s cheapy at £24, replaced wheels with my old red Kryps Most memorable moment: First time I got air at Plymouth skatepark in the mogul about 1978 Brief comments:Just got on a board again a few weeks ago after a break of 15 years, surprised that I could still ride the thing |
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Name: Colin Milne Age: 29 Town/Area: Warrington Started skating: 1988 Total years skating: 6 Fave terrain: Curves and very very flat surfaces to go woosh woosh Fave park ever: Goshen sports center before and after verticular instalation Least fave park ever: Edge Lane( I know two people who snapped thier leg there, broke thier Tib and Fib in almost the same way) Fave board ever owned: 101 Skates Rodrigues the one with the Gremlin Most memorable skate moment: Entering the vert comp at Goshen, coming last with rock fakies, axle stalls, fakie ollies and asking Jeremy of Deathbox for the Tpot sticker that was 2foot across in size, got my name in rad mag. yeh. Brief comments: Something always hurts |
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Name: Jesse Davis / jerkydoodoo@lycos.com Age: 36 Town/Area: Outer Banks, North Carolina Started skating: 1980 Total years skating: 24 Fave terrain: Pools/good slappy curbs/backyard vert Fave park ever: Klamath Falls, Oregon Least fave park ever: Grand Junction, Colorado Fave board ever owned: Santa Cruz Jeff Grosso "Coca Cola" Most memorable skate moment: The day I learned inverts Brief comments: I want to come to England and skate! |
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Name: Stretch - john.latham7@virgin.net Age: 38 Town/Area: Markyate, Herts Started skating: 77 Total years skating: about 6 Fave terrain: Anything that is a good laugh and makes me want to go back again Fave park ever: Harrow - lots of different stuff, good memories and still good sessions goin on Least fave park ever: The old one on the coast in South Shields near Sunderland Fave board ever owned: Too poor when I was a kid, but had a nice set of white yoyo's to roll around the floor Most memorable skate moment: Goin back into Harrow pool after 23 years not skatin Brief comments: 1. I would like to slide down a rail on a set of stairs like the kids do, but am afraid I might hurt my bollocks! 2. It's a myth that skatin stated from surfing and Dogtown, everyone knows it came from ironing dude!! |
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Name: Michael S. Allen / abksk8@hotmail.com |
| More shredders and pics to be posted soon, so email me at carnfield@yahoo.co.uk .... and if you can include the following info and a pic it would be a great help | |
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